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12Neuroscience and the SoulPhilosophia Christi 15 (1): 11-19. 2013.The constant threats to scientific progress are complacency and the diminished capacity for self-criticism. There have been great advances in our understanding of the functional anatomy of the nervous system, advances that stand in vivid contrast to our understanding of the moral, aesthetic and political dimensions of human life. The contrast is so great as to encourage the belief that these dimensions are found beyond the ambit of scientific explanation. How pathetic, then, to witness strident …Read more
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6This book collects several excerpts from the work of each of nine 18th and 19th century Scottish thinkers: Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, Sir William Hamilton, James Frederick Foster, and James McCosh. A brief account of each man's life and work accompanies the selections.
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45Neuroscience and Philosophy: Brain, Mind, and LanguageColumbia University Press. 2007.In _Neuroscience and Philosophy_ three prominent philosophers and a leading neuroscientist clash over the conceptual presuppositions of cognitive neuroscience. The book begins with an excerpt from Maxwell Bennett and Peter Hacker's _Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience_ (Blackwell, 2003), which questions the conceptual commitments of cognitive neuroscientists. Their position is then criticized by Daniel Dennett and John Searle, two philosophers who have written extensively on the subject, a…Read more
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10PrefaceIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. 2002.
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5The History of Evil in the Early Modern Age 1450-1700CE (edited book)Routledge. 2018.The third volume of The History of Evil encompasses the early modern era from 1450–1700. This revolutionary period exhibited immense change in both secular knowledge and sacred understanding. It saw the fall of Constantinople and the rise of religious violence, the burning of witches and the drowning of Anabaptists, the ill treatment of indigenous peoples from Africa to the Americas, the reframing of formal authorities in religion, philosophy, and science, and it produced profound reflection on …Read more
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60What Makes Language Possible? Ethological Foundationalism in Reid and WittgensteinReview of Metaphysics 50 (3). 1997.Thomas Reid in the eighteenth century and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the twentieth made strong cases for the existence of "communication systems" that must be in place if there is to be the acquisition of any language; language in the full sense of a system of words, displaying distinctions into word classes and ordered by a grammar that is sensitive to those word classes. Although their pre-languages have something of the character of language proper, Reid and Wittgenstein offer a very different co…Read more
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15The story of Scottish philosophyExposition Press. 1961.This book collects several excerpts from the work of each of nine 18th and 19th century Scottish thinkers: Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, Thomas Brown, Sir William Hamilton, James Frederick Foster, and James McCosh. A brief account of each man's life and work accompanies the selections.
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54Thomas Reid's critique of Dugald StewartJournal of the History of Philosophy 27 (3): 405-422. 1989.
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127Personal Identity: Reid’s Answer to HumeThe Monist 61 (2): 326-339. 1978.In the third of his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid devotes the fourth chapter to the concept of‘identity’, and the sixth chapter to Locke’s theory of ‘personal identity’. This latter chapter is widely regarded as a definitive refutation of the thesis that personal identity is no more than memories of a certain sort. It is interesting that the terms ‘identity’ and ‘personal identity’ do not appear as chapter or section titles elsewhere in any of Reid’s works; and Hume is neither m…Read more
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21Personal IdentityThe Monist 61 (2): 326-339. 1978.In the third of his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Reid devotes the fourth chapter to the concept of‘identity’, and the sixth chapter to Locke’s theory of ‘personal identity’. This latter chapter is widely regarded as a definitive refutation of the thesis that personal identity is no more than memories of a certain sort. It is interesting that the terms ‘identity’ and ‘personal identity’ do not appear as chapter or section titles elsewhere in any of Reid’s works; and Hume is neither m…Read more
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13Spinoza and the Rise of LiberalismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 19 (4): 540-541. 1959.
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41Summary of Praise and BlameJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 23 (1): 2-7. 2003.A summary of the major arguments of PRAISE AND BLAME, both critical and constructive, is offered. The overarching objectives of the book are set forth, making clear the radical form of moral realism defended. Additional material is presented to justify the attention paid to historical vs. contemporary alternatives to moral realism, the latter found to be at once indebted to the former but often less developed. 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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18Reply To CommentariesJournal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 23 (1): 50-61. 2003.Commentators' criticisms are considered in relation to the aims of the book as well as in relation to the commentators' own understanding of major issues. Neither reliance on social construcitonist alternatives nor on 'de gustibus' arguments reaches the principal arguments of Praise and Blame. 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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12Review of The cultural psychology of the self (review)Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 20 (2): 225-230. 2000.Reviews the book, The cultural psychology of the self by Ciaran Benson . This is a book rich in insight, deep in significance and, inevitably, marked by assumptions and interpretations subject to gentle disagreement. It is precisely because of its manifest assets that points of disagreement need to be highlighted. In this review I will address criticism only to the first half of the book, the criticism being more by way of an introduction to the issue than the suggestion of a settled position on…Read more
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13Person and Reality: An Introduction to MetaphysicsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 19 (1): 110-112. 1958.
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23The Idea of Freedom. A Dialectical Examination of the Conception of FreedomPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 19 (3): 405-407. 1959.
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38The Demography of the Kingdom of EndsPhilosophy 69 (267): 5-19. 1994.In the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals' Kant is explicit, sometimes to the point of peevishness, in denying anthropology and psychology any part or place in his moral science. Recognizing that this will strike many as counterintuitive he is unrepentant: ‘We require no skill to make ourselves intelligible to the multitude once we renounce all profundity of thought’. That the doctrine to be defended is not exemplified in daily experience or even in imaginable encounters is necessitated by t…Read more
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2Review of The cultural psychology of the self (review)Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology 20 (2): 225-230. 2000.
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3NotesIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 205-220. 2002.
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12Explaining social phenomenaTheoretical and Philosophical Psychology 6 (1): 18-22. 1986.Philosophers of science have devoted volumes to the question of explanation; I've devoted some pages to it myself. In this highly contracted essay I shall offer no more than a comment on the problem of explanation, some vagrant but critical assessments of the dominant approaches to it, and a caution lest we take comfort in some of the recent "success"—or alleged success—in Psychology. I begin with this question: What does it mean to explain an occurrence? And then: What is it about any explanati…Read more
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41. defining the subjectIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 1-46. 2002.
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11Scientism: the new orthodoxy (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 2014.Scientism: The New Orthodoxy is a comprehensive philosophical overview of the question of scientism, discussing the place of science in the humanities and religion. Clarifying and defining the key terms in play in discussions of scientism, this collection identifies the dimensions that differentiate science from scientism. Leading scholars appraise the means available to science, covering the impact of the neurosciences and the new challenges it presents for the law and the self. Illustrating th…Read more
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Minds & Bodies: DvdMilk Bottle Productions. 2001.Is believing in "minds" as qualitatively distinct from "bodies" just wrong headed? Did René Descartes set us off on a four hundred year wild goose chase? How should we think about this traditional dichotomy? With Wayne Alt, Alicia Juerrero, and Daniel Robinson
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35Text, context and agencyTheoretical and Philosophical Psychology 11 (1): 1-10. 1991.Presents the Presidential address by Daniel N. Robinson at the Division of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology. Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association in Boston on August 11, 1990. His remarks included a series of important developments within Psychology but also outside its traditional areas of interest, in such fields as anthropology, linguistics and ethnology. 2012 APA, all rights reserved)
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14Religion, Politics, and the Higher LearningPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 20 (4): 560-561. 1960.
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182. constitutive luck: On being determinedIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 47-107. 2002.
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3IndexIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 221-227. 2002.
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55. punishment and forgivenessIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 179-204. 2002.
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94. ignorance, unconsciousness, and responsibilityIn Praise and Blame: Moral Realism and Its Applications: Moral Realism and Its Applications, Princeton Univ. Press. pp. 146-178. 2002.
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